Monday, 12 December 2011

For our news package show we first decided to
put together a short video about a Paralympic hopeful from the Manchester
College called Emily Rawlins. After a few failed attempts to get in touch with
her and get her to ring us back we decided to change our story to someone/something
that we would be able to get in touch with and interview. When we first decided
to the news package about Emily I had a feeling that we would have trouble
getting in touch with her because she wasn’t in the same campus as us, which is
also the reason why we didn’t do a news piece about the principle of the
college.

Our new idea is to make a news package about
the work being done between the music, and media students at the Manchester
College. I think it is a good idea because it would help people understand a
little bit about how it works when an artist is performing and being filmed.
E.g. people may wonder how shows like X-Factor and Britain’s Got Talent work.
Although this may not be on a scale as large as those shows it gives the
audience a little taste of what its like. Our target audience will me males and
females between the age of 16 and 25 because I believe this is the age range of
people that would be interested in how it all works.

The news show will be approximately one minute
long. There won’t be a presenter or voice-overs, instead we will use questions
posed on screen. It will include an interview with 2 students and a presenter
about what both students expected and if there expectations were met. The
package will also include performances from the music students and some footage
of the media students when they are setting up and filming the performances.

Monday, 5 December 2011

Filming techniques are important in order for the director to be able to portray his thoughts onto screen. They can be used in different ways to depict different stories, e.g. if a director wanted to show a scene that was scary then they would probably not use a tripod to give the audience a shaky shot which would be seen as unstable and risky.

Interview Techniques

Interviewing a subject can be tricky at times especially when its someone you expect to approach and interview because you won't know what to expect from them. It is usually best to prep a person before you interview them and make sure they feel comfortable in the environment. It is important to ask the right questions and in order to get the most information out of the interviewee you should ask open questions. That way you have more footage to cut through for your final interview.

Health and Safety & Risk Assessments

Risk Assessment forms are essential to a shoot because without a risk assessment being completed, a shoot could not take place. It is very important to highlight the dangers when working in a studio or on location because when you work in the TV industry then it is likely that you will be working with heavy and hot equipment. There are usually wires running across the floor and it is important to keep them covered. Health and Safety risks like those are avoidable by filling out a Risk Assessment form.

Copyright

A copyright logo/notice is used to identify to the world that a piece or work/idea has copyright ownership. To copyright an idea is the job of the owner/creator and does not need permission from anyone else. If someone copyrights there work/idea it is piece of mind for them to ensure that their work will not be emulated.

The use of sound/audio is very important in news and news stories. Music, sound effects and dialogue all contribute to an overall news package. From the beginning of a news package, you hear music along with the graphics and then it cuts into the anchor speaking. News stories within the package also include sound with voice overs and interviews. The news without sound would not really tell a story which is why it is vital to the complete news package.

In our news package I don't think we will have any sound at the beginning of the news package because we don't have any graphics. Instead it will be an interview question posed on a blank screen and then the question will be answered by the interviewees along with sound from the music videos which they were involved in.

Lighting

Lighting is essential in all aspects of television and can be used to set the scene for a shot e.g. blue colour would symbolise coolness and orange would symbolise warmth. Lighting in a news studio is usually preset because the director isn't looking for any particular type of lighting apart from on occasions where the lights will go dim at the end of a news package. It is very important when a news report is taking place at night that the reporter is well lit for the audience watching.

For our news package the interviews will have been shot using regular ceiling lighting and we won't be having a news anchor so there won't be any need for studio lighting. The cutaways being used have already been shot using studio lighting.